Evolving

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    Physics

    A Breakthrough in Measuring the Building Blocks of Nature

    An artistic rendering of the quarks and gluons that make up a proton.Illustration by D. Dominguez / CERN Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In a recent experiment done at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, in Germany, physicist Alexey Grinin and his colleagues came a step closer […]

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    Environment

    Humans Have Rights and So Should Nature

    An “Earth lawyer” argues for cultural transformation in environmental law.

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    Zoology

    We Didn’t Evolve for This

    A lesson from the animal kingdom on why COVID-19 is so deadly to humans.

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    Sociology

    Why Humans Wage War

    War is purposeful and calculating. The more organized we are, the better we get at fighting.

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    Astronomy

    We’re the Cosmic 1 Percent But Our Solar System Isn’t a Complete Weirdo

    About half of all stars seem to have “super-Earth” planets on orbits closer to their stars than Mercury is to the Sun, but we don’t.Illustration by Vadim Sadovski / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Is Earth unique? Once a grand philosophical question, it has, over the past […]

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    Physics

    How to Talk Like a Physicist

    Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who probably is the smartest person on her block, has fun in her latest video skewering the scientific braggart.Photograph by Francisco De Legarreta C. / Unsplash Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The other night I was out on our street with the neighbors for […]